Description

MediaWiki before 1.36.2 allows a denial of service (resource consumption because of lengthy query processing time). Visiting Special:Contributions can sometimes result in a long running SQL query because PoolCounter protection is mishandled.

Remediation

References

CVE-2021-41800

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2021-41800 CWE-770 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities